OT Cat and Mouse

Jiji is going to be just unbearable for a couple of weeks now.
He caught himself a mouse.
He has taken it into every room with someone in it dropped it, put a foot
on it, and proclaimed his hunting prowess loudly.
Now he is merely lounging with one foot on the thing and telling us all
about it every time he sees one of us.
I can just imagine what he is saying.
Yes, yes, caught this one in the wilds of Injah yanno.
Full on 12 point mouse, put up a dreadful fight...

It is a sort of weird looking mouse. A rather long legged little beastie
with an extra long furry tail that has a tuft on the end.
Jiji is going to be one cocky cat for some time.

NightMist
why yes I am bored to tears, how could you tell?

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I just went back to your post about having your modify job done and you said
this time next week. Didn't get out the calendar and calculator. What's
the schedule?
Meanwhile, back to Jiji. You are quite right. And it will be like all
the fishing stories we've heard. That mouse will grow in size and ferocity
with every telling of the tale. Do lots of praise and ear-rubbing and
appreciation.
Better dropped at your foot than running up DH's britches leg. Polly


"NightMist" wrote in message
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Jiji is going to be just unbearable for a couple of weeks now.
He caught himself a mouse.
He has taken it into every room with someone in it dropped it, put a foot
on it, and proclaimed his hunting prowess loudly.
Now he is merely lounging with one foot on the thing and telling us all
about it every time he sees one of us.
I can just imagine what he is saying.
Yes, yes, caught this one in the wilds of Injah yanno.
Full on 12 point mouse, put up a dreadful fight...

It is a sort of weird looking mouse. A rather long legged little beastie
with an extra long furry tail that has a tuft on the end.
Jiji is going to be one cocky cat for some time.

NightMist
why yes I am bored to tears, how could you tell?

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I'm raising a developmentally disabled child. What's your superpower?

On 03/10/2011 04:56, NightMist wrote:

Jiji is going to be just unbearable for a couple of weeks now.
He caught himself a mouse.
He has taken it into every room with someone in it dropped it, put a foot
on it, and proclaimed his hunting prowess loudly.
Now he is merely lounging with one foot on the thing and telling us all
about it every time he sees one of us.
I can just imagine what he is saying.
Yes, yes, caught this one in the wilds of Injah yanno.
Full on 12 point mouse, put up a dreadful fight...

It is a sort of weird looking mouse. A rather long legged little beastie
with an extra long furry tail that has a tuft on the end.
Jiji is going to be one cocky cat for some time.

NightMist
why yes I am bored to tears, how could you tell?

Oh, mighty hunter! We bow before your great prowes!

Giggle. Our two are avid hunters. Remains of two pigeons in the garden
this week... I Suspect Cornflake. They bring mice home to show us
fairly frequently. And we know whn they have had bunnies, as they leave
the back feet, the tail, and the green wobbly bit on the rug beside the
garden door.

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Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
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Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Good kitty!
As for the tufted tail and long legs, maybe it was a gerbil? Lots of
those have escaped into the wild, where they don't belong. Not the
North American wild anyway.
Roberta in D

On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:56:14 +0000, NightMist
wrote:


Jiji is going to be just unbearable for a couple of weeks now.
He caught himself a mouse.
He has taken it into every room with someone in it dropped it, put a foot
on it, and proclaimed his hunting prowess loudly.
Now he is merely lounging with one foot on the thing and telling us all
about it every time he sees one of us.
I can just imagine what he is saying.
Yes, yes, caught this one in the wilds of Injah yanno.
Full on 12 point mouse, put up a dreadful fight...

It is a sort of weird looking mouse. A rather long legged little beastie
with an extra long furry tail that has a tuft on the end.
Jiji is going to be one cocky cat for some time.

NightMist
why yes I am bored to tears, how could you tell?

)
Praise him for helping keep the rodent population in check.
Praise him for bringing it to you to show [don't most jkids bring
projects home to show their parents!?]
Praise him for keeping it on his territory [not like the cat we had
growing up who ceremoniously dropped his freshly killed gopher on my
father's breakfast plate!]

Ginger in CA

On Oct 2, 8:56*pm, NightMist wrote:
Jiji is going to be just unbearable for a couple of weeks now.
He caught himself a mouse.
He has taken it into every room with someone in it dropped it, put a foot
on it, and proclaimed his hunting prowess loudly.
Now he is merely lounging with one foot on the thing and telling us all
about it every time he sees one of us.
I can just imagine what he is saying.
Yes, yes, caught this one in the wilds of Injah yanno.
Full on 12 point mouse, put up a dreadful fight...

It is a sort of weird looking mouse. *A rather long legged little beastie
with an extra long furry tail that has a tuft on the end.
Jiji is going to be one cocky cat for some time.

NightMist
why yes I am bored to tears, how could you tell?

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I'm raising a developmentally disabled child. *What's your superpower?

On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 22:56:14 -0500, NightMist wrote
(in article ):


Jiji is going to be just unbearable for a couple of weeks now.
He caught himself a mouse.
He has taken it into every room with someone in it dropped it, put a foot
on it, and proclaimed his hunting prowess loudly.
Now he is merely lounging with one foot on the thing and telling us all
about it every time he sees one of us.
I can just imagine what he is saying.
Yes, yes, caught this one in the wilds of Injah yanno.
Full on 12 point mouse, put up a dreadful fight...

It is a sort of weird looking mouse. A rather long legged little beastie
with an extra long furry tail that has a tuft on the end.
Jiji is going to be one cocky cat for some time.

NightMist
why yes I am bored to tears, how could you tell?



Ah, yes. We've had similar here with the General. Thankfully David has been
the one to learn of and dispose of the remains.

Not so thankfully, David pulled back the shower curtain one evening to show
me the remains (dangled the thing right in front of my nose) while General
sat by declaring his prowess. Not my idea of a relaxing shower!

Maureen

NightMist wrote:

Jiji is going to be just unbearable for a couple of weeks now.
He caught himself a mouse.
He has taken it into every room with someone in it dropped it, put a foot
on it, and proclaimed his hunting prowess loudly.
Now he is merely lounging with one foot on the thing and telling us all
about it every time he sees one of us.
I can just imagine what he is saying.
Yes, yes, caught this one in the wilds of Injah yanno.
Full on 12 point mouse, put up a dreadful fight...

It is a sort of weird looking mouse. A rather long legged little beastie
with an extra long furry tail that has a tuft on the end.
Jiji is going to be one cocky cat for some time.

NightMist
why yes I am bored to tears, how could you tell?


Our ginger Seamus takes enormous pride in repeatedly catching Ms
Recidivista Frogoli (she's the Peron's Tree Frog that lives around our
pond). Thankfully, each time Seamus gets the better of Ms Recidivista,
she lets out a bellow to wake the dead so that we can rescue her. I
*dread* the day no one hears the poor creature! It would be a tragedy to
lose her to a smarty-emu cat!

--
Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Roberta wrote:
Good kitty!
As for the tufted tail and long legs, maybe it was a gerbil? Lots of
those have escaped into the wild, where they don't belong. Not the
North American wild anyway.
Roberta in D

A while back, our Seamus caught a mouse in the back yard. Now, having
kept and bred fancy mice for quite a few years, all the members of our
family find it quite hard to catch and kill the poor little wild ones.
I'm sure you can imagine...?

Well, when Seamus brought his mouse (still alive) to the door and
boasted about it, DH steeled himself and said 'The cat's doing a good
job by keeping the wild mice out of the house. Let him have it!' So we
did. Later, when I found the poor little dead body, I discovered to my
horror that it was a wild Antechinus (marsupial mouse)!!!
Aaaarrrrgggghhhh! That would be the *last* thing anyone would want to
kill - or let their cat kill, either. The grief!

Seamus' sister, Genny, on the other hand, specialises in cockroaches.
That's fine by all of us.

--
Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia

I went back and looked at the date on my post about the surgery.
Then out of curiosity I looked at the date on your response to it.
The gods of usenet saw fit to give your response a date and time that
precedes the date and time of my original post by about 5 minutes, even
after taking into account that you are central time and I am eastern. I
always knew that Eris was in charge of usenet.

Surgery is on Wednesday.
I have to call on Tuesday to get a specific time.
Tuesday is also clear fluids only and "clean out" day, so I expect I will
be about as brainy as a bobblehead. If I figure out how to use the phone
and manage to write the time down properly it will be an accomplishment.
I may have to delegate that task.

Today I am going down to the tattoo parlor to have my jewelry swapped.
They are only charging me $5 for the non-metallic retainer, and nothing
at all to swap out the ring for it. I knew that they were awesome down
there, but this kind of deal is well beyond anything I expected. I have
priced retainers and non-metallic jewelry and I have never found one this
inexpensive anywhere before.

Aren't cats just terrible liars about their hunting prowess?
Worse than fisherman even!
A cat can make catching a moth sound like they just brought down a rabid
lion in deepest darkest Africa.
However unless you want to find rodent body parts in your slippers every
morning you never ever tease them about it!

And what is it with cats setting up bathtubs as their own private game
preserve?
I have found up to three live mice in the tub at a go. All of them a
little bloody and madly trying to scramble up the porcelain.
Mostly the stored mice belong to Missy. Or so she tells us when we get
rid of them. Beyond annoyed does not even begin to cover it, she attacks
our feet and jumps up trying to reclaim "her" mice. Nothing quite like
threading your way to the door holding dead mice over your head while a
cat attacks from below.

NightMist


On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:34:29 -0500, Polly Esther wrote:

I just went back to your post about having your modify job done and you
said this time next week. Didn't get out the calendar and calculator.
What's the schedule?
Meanwhile, back to Jiji. You are quite right. And it will be like
all
the fishing stories we've heard. That mouse will grow in size and
ferocity with every telling of the tale. Do lots of praise and
ear-rubbing and appreciation.
Better dropped at your foot than running up DH's britches leg.
Polly


"NightMist" wrote in message
...

Jiji is going to be just unbearable for a couple of weeks now. He
caught himself a mouse.
He has taken it into every room with someone in it dropped it, put a
foot on it, and proclaimed his hunting prowess loudly. Now he is merely
lounging with one foot on the thing and telling us all about it every
time he sees one of us. I can just imagine what he is saying. Yes, yes,
caught this one in the wilds of Injah yanno. Full on 12 point mouse,
put up a dreadful fight...

It is a sort of weird looking mouse. A rather long legged little
beastie with an extra long furry tail that has a tuft on the end. Jiji
is going to be one cocky cat for some time.

NightMist
why yes I am bored to tears, how could you tell?

--
I'm raising a developmentally disabled child. What's your superpower?





--
I'm raising a developmentally disabled child. What's your superpower?

They probably aren't going to let you bring your computer into the operating
room. Nurses get so fussy and militant about rules. Please, NM, designate
someone to let us know how you're doing. Not Jiji. Polly

"NightMist" wrote in message
...
I went back and looked at the date on my post about the surgery.
Then out of curiosity I looked at the date on your response to it.
The gods of usenet saw fit to give your response a date and time that
precedes the date and time of my original post by about 5 minutes, even
after taking into account that you are central time and I am eastern. I
always knew that Eris was in charge of usenet.

Surgery is on Wednesday.
I have to call on Tuesday to get a specific time.
Tuesday is also clear fluids only and "clean out" day, so I expect I will
be about as brainy as a bobblehead. If I figure out how to use the phone
and manage to write the time down properly it will be an accomplishment.
I may have to delegate that task.

Today I am going down to the tattoo parlor to have my jewelry swapped.
They are only charging me $5 for the non-metallic retainer, and nothing
at all to swap out the ring for it. I knew that they were awesome down
there, but this kind of deal is well beyond anything I expected. I have
priced retainers and non-metallic jewelry and I have never found one this
inexpensive anywhere before.

Aren't cats just terrible liars about their hunting prowess?
Worse than fisherman even!
A cat can make catching a moth sound like they just brought down a rabid
lion in deepest darkest Africa.
However unless you want to find rodent body parts in your slippers every
morning you never ever tease them about it!

And what is it with cats setting up bathtubs as their own private game
preserve?
I have found up to three live mice in the tub at a go. All of them a
little bloody and madly trying to scramble up the porcelain.
Mostly the stored mice belong to Missy. Or so she tells us when we get
rid of them. Beyond annoyed does not even begin to cover it, she attacks
our feet and jumps up trying to reclaim "her" mice. Nothing quite like
threading your way to the door holding dead mice over your head while a
cat attacks from below.

NightMist


On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:34:29 -0500, Polly Esther wrote:

I just went back to your post about having your modify job done and you
said this time next week. Didn't get out the calendar and calculator.
What's the schedule?
Meanwhile, back to Jiji. You are quite right. And it will be like
all
the fishing stories we've heard. That mouse will grow in size and
ferocity with every telling of the tale. Do lots of praise and
ear-rubbing and appreciation.
Better dropped at your foot than running up DH's britches leg.
Polly


"NightMist" wrote in message
...

Jiji is going to be just unbearable for a couple of weeks now. He
caught himself a mouse.
He has taken it into every room with someone in it dropped it, put a
foot on it, and proclaimed his hunting prowess loudly. Now he is merely
lounging with one foot on the thing and telling us all about it every
time he sees one of us. I can just imagine what he is saying. Yes, yes,
caught this one in the wilds of Injah yanno. Full on 12 point mouse,
put up a dreadful fight...

It is a sort of weird looking mouse. A rather long legged little
beastie with an extra long furry tail that has a tuft on the end. Jiji
is going to be one cocky cat for some time.

NightMist
why yes I am bored to tears, how could you tell?

--
I'm raising a developmentally disabled child. What's your superpower?





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I'm raising a developmentally disabled child. What's your superpower?